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Sonnet 130

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now, real beauty is inside. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 5, 2006.
(Summary by Fox in the Stars)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia - William Shakespeare
• Wikipedia - Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• LibriVox’s Sonnet 130 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (10.0MB)
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• Version 1 - 00:01:31
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  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:01:29
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  Read by: Catharine Eastman
• Version 3 - 00:01:25
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  Read by: Chip
• Version 4 - 00:01:07
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  Read by: David Baker
• Version 5 - 00:01:10
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  Read by: Dilini Jayasinghe
• Version 6 - 00:01:16
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  Read by: Graham Williams
• Version 7 - 00:01:06
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  Read by: Ted McElroy
• Version 8 - 00:01:19
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  Read by: Kristin Luoma
• Version 9 - 00:00:56
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  Read by: Kristen McQuillin
• Version 10 - 00:01:07
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  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Version 11 - 00:01:16
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  Read by: Fox in the Stars
• Version 12 - 00:00:59
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  Read by: Martin Clifton
• Version 13 - 00:01:25
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  Read by: Michael O’Connor Clarke
• Version 14 - 00:00:59
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  Read by: Nathan Miller
• Version 15 - 00:01:11
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  Read by: Robert Garrison
• Version 16 - 00:01:17
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  Read by: Stefan Schmelz
• Version 17 - 00:01:08
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  Read by: Wesley Thompson-Smith